January 21

Our Merciful Savior,
Praise You Father, for fresh and beautiful are Your ways. How lovely and free You offer Your salvation to us. Thank you for the peace You extend that the world cannot replicate no matter how hard it tries. We lay on our faces before You with contrite hearts trembling at Your holiness. We use this word so lightly, but truly, we cannot comprehend its meaning. Forgive us Lord when we have trampled on Your Sabbath, when we have disregarded the gift that it is and we have done our pleasure and spoke our own words. Help us to reflect on Your goodness, help us to speak of eternal wonders, help us to encourage the weak, the hurting, the cast down. Give us the grace to do that which is pleasing in Your sight is our prayer in the precious name of the Son, Amen.